Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

The Challenges of Inequality and Global Capitalism to U.S. Democracy

Richard B. Freeman, Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economic, Harvard University

October 30, 2007
UC Berkeley Campus

Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman explores how social inequality and globalization are threatening the foundation of democracy in the United States.

About Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert S. Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. In addition, he serves as Labor Studies Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. His research interests include the growth and decline of unions; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; restructuring European welfare states; international labor standards; globalization; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; immigration and trade; and the job market for scientists and engineers.

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